Batman: El Culto

Batman: La Colección #17

by Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson (dibujo), Jim Aparo (dibujo)

¡Batman ha cometido un asesinato! ¿Cómo es posible que el principal héroe de Gotham City haya roto la promesa que se hizo a sí mismo hace muchos años? La respuesta a este misterio se encuentra en El culto, una terrorífica historia donde el Caballero Oscuro y Jason Todd, el segundo Robin, deben hacer frente al diabólico diácono Blackfire. Además, en este volumen comienza Una muerte en la familia, con un episodio protagonizado por el propio Jason, que descubre que su familia escondía un gran secreto.

Traduce:
- Batman: The Cult 2 a 4
- Batman 426

Genres: Comics, Superheroes

192 pages, Hardcover

Published December 17, 2010

About the author

James P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.

In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).

When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (

In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.

Reviews

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tomo 17 de andá a saber cuántos terminaron siendo.
Incluye The Cult y un postre.

[Raül · Rating 4 out of 5]

Batman i Robin s’enfronten a una secta religiosa prepara un gran conspiració que amenaça de dur Gotham en el caos. Història ambiciosa, combina pot ser massa elements (sectes religioses, conspiracions polítiques, terror i fets sobrenaturals...) i això fa que es torne confusa en algun moment. Destaca la proposta narrativa gràfica, gòtica i lisèrgica.

[Regino Imanol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es interesante como durante la mayor parte de la historia, quien nos va llevando del hilo, es Batman a través de sus pensamientos. Esto hace que la experiencia de lectura sea más profunda, incluso un poco más personal. Aunque la historia en ocasiones resulta un poco “floja”, es satisfactorio ver cómo Batman rompe muchos de sus principios y fortalezas a consecuencia del villano.
Buen cómic.

[Fugo Feedback]

Creo que nunca la completé de Zinco pero esta caprichosa edición me espera hace rato para ser leída...